Johannes Schumann

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Johannes Schumann (born December 14, 1881 in Crossen ; † after 1949) was a German composer and music teacher who was counted among the most important in the Ore Mountains .

Life

He came from the Rochlitz district , where he was born as the son of a teacher and cantor from the small town of Crossen, now part of the municipality of Erlau (Saxony) . His father took him to school when he was four years old. At the age of six he learned to play the piano and at the age of nine to play the church organ in Crossen.

At the age of 14, Johannes Schumann went to the teachers' college in Rochlitz because he was supposed to be a teacher like his father. After five and a half years he first became vicar in Seelitz and then in Breitenborn .

In 1901 he was called up to Leipzig to do his military service. At Easter 1902 he became an assistant teacher in Mittweida . His professional career would actually have come to an end, but he continued his education and began studying for three years in Leipzig in 1904, where he passed the state examination in 1907. This opened the door for him to work in seminars. He found his first job at the seminar in Plauen , after which he went to Auerbach / Vogtl. In 1909 he switched to the seminar and the secondary school in Stollberg / Erzgeb as a senior teacher and later a teacher who was mainly active as a music teacher . There he found his final place of activity, where he became the nestor of music education. Numerous later musicians, singers and soloists such as Paul Rauchfuß and Gert Bahner went through his school. At the end of the school year 1948/49 Johannes Schumann retired, but continued his musical activities as a part-time job.

Johannes Schumann was also a lecturer in music at the Stollberg / Erzgeb district adult education center. active and worked well into old age with numerous music-loving and music-enthusiastic people.

He was friends a. with Rainer Maria Rilke and Helene Nostitz .

Works

Johannes Schumann has set several songs to music. The mazurka “dancing girls” is one of the best known .

literature

  • Werner Unger : Celebrities from our homeland: Joahhes Schumann on his 85th birthday . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 11, 1966, No. 12, pp. 270–271.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Unger : Celebrities from our homeland: Joahhes Schumann for his 85th birthday . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 11, 1966, No. 12, p. 270
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Crosses
DATE OF DEATH after 1949